No, turning the camera off and on sorted it - the usual IT support first reponse to a computer problem . It isn't an explanation but there's no way of getting a handle on it unless it happens again and I can spot a common factor.

Steve

And there's always the Q series if you're incurably addicted to changing lenses .

Good to hear you're heeding doc's advice. Apparently lots of people don't (according to my GP daughter). But doc is usually right.

Steve

OK, it's confession time. Guess who relieved LennyBloke of the heavy burden of owning a Tamron 500mm mirror lens... And today was the first opportunity to try it out - bright sun and no rain, albeit with gusty wind. It's definitely an interesting lens. Manual focus with shallow DOF was never going to be easy, but it's no more tricky than hunting bugs and bees with a manual focus macro lens. As for bokeh, my first reaction to Mysteron rings (anyone remember Captain Scarlet?) was to see them as a creative challenge rather than defect.

Anyway, here are some of the results. All with the K3iii, hand held with viewfinder.

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Interesting how each picture is essentially left-right symmetric with a clear vertical in the middle. Your next challenge is to take a fisheye set without either .

There's an interesting abstract in the tree tops at the top of the last picture, above the level of the top of the lamp. Or is that just my vivid imagination???

Steve

Yesterday my K3iii stopped displaying playback images on the rear screen - when the button was pressed to display the image that had just been taken, a rotating 'I'm busy, wait until I've finished' wheel appeared and didn't go away. Turning the camera off and on sorted it out, all images present and correct and able to display them on the rear screen. Has anyone else encountered this?

Background: Individual shots (bee bothering ), not rattling off like a machine gun. Lastest firmware installed. Battery indicator showing full. Lens was Irix 150mm macro (manual focus of course) + 1.4TC, the usual for hunting bugs and bees. And I'd been playing back previous images quite successfully before the wheel appeared.

Steve

Impressive - particularly when you can't see what's holding the earth up .

Is the blue/purple lighting on the column and roof part of the 'art'? It would look a lot better without it IMHO.

The shift lens has worked nicely. Any idea whether the K3iii's tilt correction could have achieved the same or would the amount of sensor shift be too small for the height of the cathedral? Should have thought of trying it during my recent cathedral visits but was too distracted by having a fisheye in the camera bag...

Steve

The UK authorised repairer for Ricoh cameras is the same as for Pentax - John Pye Ltd., contact details in Ricoh website link.

Steve

To my eye, there's something about the colours (at least on my tablet) that's reminiscent of holiday postcards of a certain era. Ah, happy days when a week in somewhere like Plymouth would be an exotic holiday!

Steve

Does it point towards the pulpit as a comment on the sermons??

Steve

'Cos we're in the age of vintage, retro, recycling and upcycling. Re-use an old test report and save the planet .

And on the subject of re-use, isn't all that trendy AI stuff just a matter of getting a computer to re-use what's already on the internet rather than bothering to do the thinking, looking up and writing yourself? A bit like getting a decorator in to do your house because you can't be bothered then finding that you've got to do a lot of checking and telling them what to do because they learned all they know by watching YouTube videos and don't have any real experience? Or am I just being cynical?

Steve